Planning & Analysis Analyst

at  State Farm

Overview:
We are not just offering a job but a meaningful career! Come join our passionate team!
As a Fortune 50 company, we hire the best employees to serve our customers, making us a leader in the insurance and financial services industry. State Farm embraces diversity and inclusion to ensure a workforce that is engaged, builds on the strengths and talents of all associates, and creates a Good Neighbor culture.
We offer competitive benefits and pay with the potential for an annual financial award based on both individual and enterprise performance. Our employees have an opportunity to participate in volunteer events within the community and engage in a learning culture. We offer programs to assist with tuition reimbursement, professional designations, employee development, wellness initiatives, and more!
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Responsibilities:

As a Planning & Analysis (P&A) Analyst within Financial Operations, you’ll be uniquely positioned with exciting opportunity to directly influence and enable enterprise leadership decision making through providing relevant, actionable, future-focused financial analysis. You’ll be a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to Executive leadership, collaborating broadly with others across State Farm to enable execution of key enterprise priorities. You will enable the mission of State Farm, informing how we can help more customers in more ways. As a P&A Analyst, your key responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):

• Strategic enterprise planning, target setting, and monitoring/reporting of company goals.
• Proactive identification of market opportunities and trends to support Executives in identifying outliers and enabling actionable insights.
• Providing knowledge, insight, and enterprise perspective via financial analysis that facilitates operational and strategic decision making.
• Collaborate across P&A, Financial Operations, and the Enterprise to develop ad hoc and routine analysis to enable informed decision-making, including analysis of results, proactive identification of trends, and impact analysis on changes effecting results trends.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner for leadership and business areas and offer insights on Enterprise financial and growth results and trends.
• Prepare accurate and relevant written financial analysis in a timely manner, communicating complex subject matter to the intended audience in a simplified manner that meaningfully informs decisions.
• Represent P&A on projects and initiatives across the Enterprise.

Qualifications:

• Strategic enterprise planning, target setting, and monitoring/reporting of company goals.
• Proactive identification of market opportunities and trends to support Executives in identifying outliers and enabling actionable insights.
• Providing knowledge, insight, and enterprise perspective via financial analysis that facilitates operational and strategic decision making.
• Collaborate across P&A, Financial Operations, and the Enterprise to develop ad hoc and routine analysis to enable informed decision-making, including analysis of results, proactive identification of trends, and impact analysis on changes effecting results trends.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner for leadership and business areas and offer insights on Enterprise financial and growth results and trends.
• Prepare accurate and relevant written financial analysis in a timely manner, communicating complex subject matter to the intended audience in a simplified manner that meaningfully informs decisions.
• Represent P&A on projects and initiatives across the Enterprise